Assistant Education Officer

The Assistant Education Officer supports the roll-out of Refugee Education 2030, providing technical support to UNHCR Country Offices and partners to advocate for and implement education objectives for refugees and persons of concern. The role involves promoting equitable inclusion in national education systems, fostering safe learning environments, and enabling sustainable futures through education, in line with the Global Compact on Refugees and SDG 4.

Responsibilities

• Translate global education objectives and strategic directions into regional or national guidance, strategies and priorities.
• Engage, promote and foster partnerships/collaboration with national education stakeholders and bodies.
• Provide technical advice and support on all issues related to UNHCR education programmes and strategic directions.
• Support and provide technical advice to senior management and Policy and Development staff for advocacy activities.
• Participate in national humanitarian and development sector working groups.
• Assist Country Offices to elaborate and implement strategies to address education access, quality and data issues.
• Undertake direct dialogue at the national level on education programme implementation.
• Foster inter-sectoral linkages and coordination with other sectors such as child protection, GBV, gender, livelihoods, and health.
• Assist supervisor in monitoring education programme implementation and Global Refugee Forum pledges.
• Assist in planning and coordination of UNHCR's role concerning education and represent UNHCR at consultations and with other organizations.
• Train UNHCR staff, sister UN agency staff, NGOs, and Ministry of Education officials on refugee education priorities.
• Assist with development and dissemination of relevant tools to support staff and partners.
• Support active exchange of information and dissemination of best practices.
• Join joint assessment missions in emergencies to minimize education disruption for refugee children and youth.
• Prepare and draft education input in key internal and external documents and reports.
• Support risk identification and management in the area of responsibility.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree with 1 year relevant experience; or Graduate degree with no experience; or Doctorate degree with no experience.
• Field(s) of Education: Education; Social Sciences; or other relevant field.
• Strong inter-personal skills in collaboration and coordination.
• Excellent analytical skills and drafting skills.
• Strong communications/presentation skills.
• Demonstrated capacity to work with minimum supervision.
• Experience with educational research, teaching or education administration.
• Field experience in education programme implementation and coordination in humanitarian and/or development contexts (desirable).
• Experience working with Governments, Ministry of Education and other line Ministries (desirable).
• Demonstrated work experience in refugee education programmes (desirable).
• Knowledge and experience of UNHCR policies and standards (desirable).
• Experience in the area of child protection (desirable).
• Demonstrated work experience in education programmes (desirable).
• Functional skills including PR-Refugee Protection Principles and Framework, PR-Community-based Protection, ED-Education programming design and quality assurance, ED-Global EiE standards and implementation, ED-Technical support to education programmes and proposals, TR-Training Design and Material Preparation, PR-Convention on the Rights of the Child / International Legal Framework, TR-Training - Virtual and face to face.
• Fluency in French and good working knowledge of English; Arabic is an asset.

Skills

• Educational Research
• Teaching
• Education administration
• Education Programme Implementation
• Programme Coordination
• Collaboration
• Coordination
• Analytical Skills
• Drafting Skills
• Communications
• Presentation Skills
• Refugee education programmes
• UNHCR Policies and Standards
• Child Protection
• Refugee Protection Principles
• Community-Based Protection
• Education Programming Design
• Quality Assurance
• Global EiE Standards
• Technical Support to Education Programmes
• Proposal Development
• Training Design
• Training Material Development
• Virtual training
• Face to face training

Languages

French, English